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so does it boot up normally? not sure i understand when you say "cutout"? are you saying that it is in a bootloop?
OK I push the power button to turn the phone on,and the word "UNIHERTZ" pops up on the screen but then the phone goes back off before it can get any further. I done changed batteries and the screen itself. It's getting power because the screen does come on just does not goes pass the "UNIHERTZ " logo

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I came here to say everything that @Hadron said, but he beat me to it - and said it better anyway.

I honestly don't think that we'll see the 5a expand its availability beyond the US and Japan, and it's basically indistinguishable from the 4a 5G anyway.

If you're wanting to buy an A-series phone in the near future, I'd go for the 4a 5G; otherwise, maybe hold off and see what the 6a looks like this time next year.

Cannot set notification sound in Textra

I just got the new Sony Xperia 1 iii and had this issue but I found the solution.

Android 11 - Textra Version 4.43

- Hit the 3 dots at the top right
- Select "settings"
- Select "customize notifications"
- Make sure "play notification sound" is on
- Hit the "android settings" button under the notification style group
- In the notification menu that pops up, hit the "advanced" drop down
- select "sound" and choose your tone from the list
- back out using the top left back arrow
- hit the play button in the top right of the texts app to very the change.

Hope this helps.

Is G5 data recovery possible?

Thank you for your guidance!
Even though I was able to select safe mode, the phone just returned to the same mindless loop.
I was even able to select recovery mode. The screen went to "no command"
So, we are working to reload purchased apps & fat fingering in the contacts. The photos were not very important so no great loss there.
I will download ADP for future use.

If your apps were purchased from Google Play or Amazon Appstore, then they should still be available on your account, and can be installed on a replacement device. Were the contacts synced with anything, like Google?

In terms of future proofing, is it better to have greater software support or better hardware?

I wouldn't worry about the "limited" 6GB RAM myself. Android updates do not necessarily mean that you need larger and larger amounts of RAM: my Pixel 2 has gone from Android 8 to Android 11 with no noticeable impact on performance, and it has 4GB of RAM. My daughter says that her Galaxy S8 (2017, originally Android 7, now Android 9) still runs fine and it too has 4GB. I do personally feel that part of the drive towards ever larger amounts of RAM is marketing: sticking a bit more RAM in may make more difference to sales than it does to usability. The biggest impact is likely to be on how many apps can stay in storage without having to reload when you switch back to them, but if you are a light user how important will that be?

Now that's not to say that a manufacturer can't release a badly-optimised update which slows things down, but it's rarely the lack of RAM that is responsible for that, just poor coding.

So sorry, that doesn't answer your question, just to say that if it were me making the decision I'd not worry about the difference between 6GB and 8GB of RAM.

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